> Unlike Skype, Whatsapp never bothered with a framework like Scrum. Early employees shared how they never even muttered the word and deliberately ignored all heavyweight processes. Whatsapp out-executed Skype, built a more reliable messaging experience than Skype, and ultimately won the battle of messaging and communication apps.
Article overall is ok but this part killed me. It's like it's implying that the team management methodology is what made Skype lose, and not that Whatsapp was the right project at the right time that filled a mobile niche, while Skype was an older project that was unlikely to go through a full rebrand. To put it simply, Skype was really bad. Team managament can in some cases stale the developers, but in this case it wouldn't do anything if Skype was already headed nowhere. Unless not using scrum magically made the people working on Skype have a vision and good UI taste.
Article overall is ok but this part killed me. It's like it's implying that the team management methodology is what made Skype lose, and not that Whatsapp was the right project at the right time that filled a mobile niche, while Skype was an older project that was unlikely to go through a full rebrand. To put it simply, Skype was really bad. Team managament can in some cases stale the developers, but in this case it wouldn't do anything if Skype was already headed nowhere. Unless not using scrum magically made the people working on Skype have a vision and good UI taste.